Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal

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"This industrial working-class environment fed into the sound of Osbourne’s defining musical project, Black Sabbath, whose heavy sound revolutionised British rock music. “We wanted to put how we thought about the world at the time,” the band’s bassist, Geezer Butler, said in 2017. “We didn’t want to write happy pop songs. We gave that industrial feeling to it.”

Named after a Boris Karloff horror movie, the band, also featuring Tony Iommi on guitar and Bill Ward on drums, released their self-titled debut in 1970, followed by further albums regarded as foundation stones of the heavy-metal genre. Paranoid (1970) featured the strutting anthems Iron Man and War Pigs and topped the UK album chart, while the cacophonous, psychedelic sound of Master of Reality (1971) remains a huge influence on the slower sound of doom metal."

 

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